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THE INTERNATIONAL JURY Frank Bowling (2019) Paula Rego (2021) and the 2022 commission
OF THE BIENNALE ARTE 2024 Hew Locke: The Procession.
María Inés Rodríguez is a Colombian French curator, currently
PRESIDENT: JULIA BRYAN-WILSON.THE INTERNATIONAL JURY
Director of the Walter Leblanc Foundation in Brussels and Artistic
OF THE 60TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION OF LA BIENNALE
Director of Tropical Papers. With a profound commitment to
DI VENEZIA IS MADE UP OF JULIA BRYAN-WILSON (PRESIDENT),
fostering a dialogue between artistic production and historical,
AMERICAN CURATOR AND PROFESSOR AT COLUMBIA
political, and social contexts on both local and global levels, she
UNIVERSITY; ALIA SWASTIKA, INDONESIAN CURATOR AND
has consistently championed the interconnectedness of art and
WRITER; CHIKA OKEKE-AGULU, NIGERIAN CURATOR AND
its broader cultural implications. She was the Director of the CAPC
ART CRITIC; ELENA CRIPPA, ITALIAN CURATOR; MARÍA INÉS
Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux, Curator at Large at MASP,
RODRÍGUEZ, FRENCH-COLOMBIAN CURATOR.
São Paulo; Chief Curator at the MUAC in Mexico City, as well as at
the MUSAC in Spain and guest curator at the Jeu de Paume in Paris.
The appointment of the Jury has been deliberated by the Board
The International Jury will award the following official prizes:
of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia upon recommendation by
• Golden Lion for best National Participation
Adriano Pedrosa, the Curator of the 60th Exhibition titled Stranieri
• Golden Lion for best participant in the International Exhibition
Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, that will be held in Venice
Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere
(Giardini and Arsenale) from April 20th to November 24th, 2024.
• Silver Lion for a promising young participant in the
Julia Bryan-Wilson – president – is Professor of Contemporary Art
International Exhibition Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners
and LGBTQ+ Studies at Columbia University. Her curatorial credits
Everywhere
include Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen (with Andrea Andersson)
The Jury may also award:
and Louise Nevelson: Persistence. She is the author of Art Workers:
• A maximum of one special mention to National Participations
Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era; Fray: Art and Textile
• A maximum of two special mentions to the participants in the
Politics (winner of the ASAP Book Prize, the Frank Jewett Mather
International Exhibition
Award, and the Robert Motherwell Book Award); and Louise
Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere
Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face. Bryan-Wilson was
a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow.
Alia Swastika is a curator and researcher/writer that expands
her practices in the last 10 years on the issue and perspectives
of decoloniality and feminism, where she involved with different
projects of decentralization of art, rewriting art history and
encouraging local activism. She works as the Director of Biennale
Jogja Foundation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She continues her
researches on Indonesian female artists during Indonesia’s New
Order and how the politics of gender from the regime influenced
the practices of artists from that period. She is now part of
curatorial team of Sharjah Biennale 16 in 2025.
Chika Okeke-Agulu is Director of the Program in African Studies,
Director of Africa World Initiative, and Robert Schirmer Professor
of Art & Archaeology and African American Studies, Princeton
University. Okeke-Agulu is Slade Professor of Fine Art, University of
Oxford (2023), and a Fellow of The British Academy. He is editor of
Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art and author of El Anatsui.
Central Pavilion. Giardini. Photo: Francesco Galli. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
The Reinvention of Sculpture (2022). He is on the advisory board
of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre, Tate Modern.
Elena Crippa is an Italian curator based in London. Since 2023, The Exhibition alsos include 86 National Participations
she has been Head of Exhibitions at London’s Whitechapel Gallery. in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale
She was previously Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary and in the city centre of Venice. 4 countries participate
Art at Tate Britain, where her exhibitions explored transnational for the first time at the Biennale Arte: Republic of Benin,
and transcultural intersections and engaged with art from a global Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Timor Leste, and United
perspective. Her shows at Tate included All Too Human (2018), Republic of Tanzania.

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